HDD Maxing out at 1 MBPS

Hi, this all seems fairly new kit - perhaps around 2019? E.g. MBO Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI-CF (U3E1)

You've referred to low transfer rate regarding one particular HDD - I don't know how many or what other disks you may have- if you have more, please confirm whether you see the same issue with those.

Low transfer rates + 100% disk use have been reported a number of times here over some years. Usually this ends up being a driver issue, but can be hard to resolve.

1. Please download and run Hard Disk Sentinel (trial) - portable version also available- SSDs too. Analyses connectivity as well as reporting health right on its GUI.

Post a screenshot of that for each disk in your system.

2. History (so often omitted by posters):
- when did this start?
- was this disk originally ok?
- what was the last major build of Win 10 you were running when it was ok?
- did this problem start after a Windows feature update (upgrade)?

3. Have you tried reseating the drive/cable or changing the cable?

4. An analytical approach would be to use the Windows Performance Analyser (WPA) free from MS - technical, graphical representation of how time is used by processes, drivers etc.

5. Please feel free to look for similar threads here as examples by searching for
low transfer rate
100% disk use

Thanks. As HDS also verifies connectivity it's unlikely that's an issue.

Do you happen to know which build of Win 10 it originally came with? Put another way, have you had a feature update since purchase - perhaps an hour or so with restarts?

Please post a screenshot of your Update History.

If your disk is really that slow, I would expect it to be very slow booting or copying files - is that the case?

Sorry, I can't read lots of stuff on a dark background like that... this is what I see:

Sorry, I can't read lots of stuff on a dark background like that... this is what I see:


Just need the oldest part- screenshot please with good contrast. Thanks.

Thanks- seems you've always been on 2004.

However you've had a lot of driver updates...

Do you remember your system booting to lock screen in about 1-2 mins? I guess it's much longer now.

As an experiment, if you boot to Safe Mode, does your drive behave differently? (e.g. compare copying a large file on C: back to C: and note the transfer rate in each case in task manager, Performance, Disk).

Ok, let's ask the question a different way:

When you first got this PC, about how long did it take from a cold boot (power on, no hibernation) before you saw the lock screen?